The UK was going into the dumps before Thatcher even came along. That's why she was elected. I couldn't imagine how bad it would be if Labour hadn't been kicked out and the far-left economic approach hadn't been abandoned.

True-ish.

But "2 + 2 = 3 is false" is not an argument for "2 + 2 = 5 is true".

(FWIW - I've seen arguments, in a broad range of periodicals, to the effect that the current generation of British politicians - if not the entire British ruling class - are dysfunctional sh*t, and the UK's future looks pretty bleak.)

I think people don't remember what services were like in those days - the weeks you'd wait for a phone installation etc.

True for the railways, not sure about the rest.

Good ol', "Know the cost of everything, but the value of nothing".